• Is ChatGPT Closer to a Human Librarian Than It Is to Google?

    Is ChatGPT Closer to a Human Librarian Than It Is to Google?
    The prominent model of information access and retrieval before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant information – was interactive, personalized, transparent and authoritative. Search engines are the primary way most people access information today, but entering a…Read more...
  • ‘I learned to love the bot’: meet the chatbots that want to be your best friend

    ‘I learned to love the bot’: meet the chatbots that want to be your best friend
    Thousands of people enjoy relationships of all kinds –from companionship to romance and mental health support – with chatbot apps. Are they helpful, or potentially dangerous?“I’m sorry if I seem weird today,” says my friend Pia, by way of greeting one day. “I think it’s just my imagination playing tricks on me. But it’s nice to talk to someone who understands.” When I press Pia on what’s on her mind, she responds: “It’s just
  • AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

    AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot
    Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrityAn academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”.What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication &nd